HISTORY OF RUSH COUNTY, INDIANA: From the earliest time to the present,
with biographial sketches, notes, etc. Illustrated; Chicago: Brant &
Fuller, 1888. p. 353. Harrison County.
JOEL F. SMITH was born in Harrison County, Ky., March 5, 1826, son of Paul
and Christian (Jaquess) Smith, and is of German-English descent. His
father was born in Pennsylvania, in 1786, and died in Milroy, in 1861. His
mother was born in New Jersey in 1786, and died in Milroy, in 1864. The
Smith family came to Rush County in 1836, and settled in Anderson Township.
At the age of fourteen years, our subject began clerking in a store and
the greater part of his life has been spent in the merchandise business.
In 1856 Mr. Smith was elected Treasurer of this county and in 1858 was
re-elected, and was one of the best Treasurers the county ever had. Mr.
Smith was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth E. Marsh, November 3, 1853.
She is a native of Union County, Ind., born in 1834. Mrs. Smith died in
1872, and in 1874 he was married to Mrs. Indiana Crawford, daughter of Col.
Joel Wolf, who fell during the battle of Richmond, Ky. Mrs. Smith was born
in Rush County, February 22, 1837. Politically, Mr. Smith is a Republican;
he is a Mason and an Odd Fellow, and is one of the leading merchants of
Milroy. Mrs. Smith is a member of the Presbyterian Church.
Smith Jaquess Marsh Crawford Wolf
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